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Small Wonder: Season 2

Small Wonder

Small Wonder: Season 2

1986
DVD
826663119848
TV Series | Comedy
USA | English | Color | 09:00

When genius cybernetics engineer Ted Lawson (Dick Christie) brings home his top secret invention, a Voice Input Child Identicant or V.I.C.I. (Tiffany Brissette), life becomes anything but mechanic for the Lawson family. With Ted’s boss and nosy family next door, his family must pass off Vickie as a real child. It’s easy for his wife Joan (Marla Pennington) who can’t help dotting on her like a real daughter, but harder for his precocious son Jamie (Jerry Supiran) who uses Vickie to do his homework and ward off Harriet (Emily Schulman), the annoying red headed girl who has a crush on him. Also starring Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Hogan Family) as Harriet’s busybody mom.


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1 Chewed Out (Smoker's Delight) 30 min | Sep 13, 1986

Jamie learns a sobering lesson in using smoking and chewing tobacco to elevate his freshman status in junior high.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Bruce Taylor
Guest stars: Adam Rich
2 Money, Money, Money 30 min | Sep 20, 1986

Still out to flatter the redoubtable Jessica, Jamie takes her out to an expensive restaurant while tightwad Ted puts Vicki in charge of household expenses.

Director: Selig Frank
Writer: Howard Meyers
Guest stars: Daryl T. Bartley, Gino Conforti
3 My Mother the Teacher 30 min | Sep 27, 1986

Jamie tries to recover his respect in class when his mother comes in as substitute teacher by trying to humiliate her out of her job.

Director: Selig Frank
Writer: Bruce Taylor
Guest stars: Le Tari
4 Here Comes the Judge 30 min | Oct 04, 1986

Playing a judge in a class simulation of a courtroom, Jamie dispenses uneven justice and gets impeached, while parking-ticket-skipping role model Ted tries to get himself arrested.

Director: Selig Frank
Writer: Jeffrey Davis
Guest stars: Daryl T. Bartley, Jo Marie Payton
5 Home Sweet Homeless 30 min | Oct 11, 1986

Joan's civic project with the homeless prompts Jamie to bring home a bum, who virtually takes over the Lawson household.

Director: Selig Frank
Writer: Susan Misty Stewart
Guest stars: Foster Brooks
6 Crazy Like a Fox 30 min | Oct 18, 1986

When Jamie is taken by a slick curbside vendor with a bad mini-TV, Ted goes after him for reparations -- and gets conned himself.

Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Bary Blitzer
Guest stars: Danny Wells
7 The Older Woman 30 min | Oct 25, 1986

Jamie pushes Harriet aside in an unrequited crush on her 16-year-old cousin, who teaches him a lesson in respect.

Director: Selig Frank
Writer: Michael Poryes
Guest stars: John Davidson, Jr., Leslie Bega
8 Who's the Boss? 30 min | Nov 01, 1986

When he's punished for thoughtlessly dropping the family's reservations to Mexico, Jamie dreams that the others are robots under his control.

Writer: Bruce Kane, Warren S. Murray
9 P-P-P Paula 30 min | Nov 08, 1986

To help Jamie's shy and withdrawn classmate who stutters, Ted programs Vicki to be her speech therapist.

Director: Bob Claver
Writer: Lawrence Levy
Guest stars: Rudy Challenger, Tony Max, Enid Kent, Veronica Redd, Bobby Herbeck, Emily Moultrie
10 You Gotta Have Heart 30 min | Nov 15, 1986

Jamie tries to show Vicki the meaning of compassion by sharing, which she does -- including the dress off her back, while the Brindles move in with their marital dispute.

Writer: Jerry Rannow
11 The Shoplifter 30 min | Apr 18, 1987

While in a store with Jamie looking for a present for her mock birthday party to convince Child Services that they treat her well, Vicki picks up an expensive watch and is picked up for shoplifting.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Bruce Taylor
Guest stars: George Murdock
12 Thanksgiving Story 30 min | Nov 29, 1986

To get on a community-sponsored Thanksgiving ski trip for disadvantaged kids, Jamie convinces the sponsors that his parents are separated.

Director: Bob Claver
Writer: Gary Belkin
Guest stars: Basil Hoffman, Douglas Emerson
13 Neighborhood Watch 30 min | May 02, 1987

After being burglarized (while Vicki's home and they're at a restaurant), the Lawsons join the neighborhood watch.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Phil Margo, Jack Gross
Guest stars: Norman Alden, Joan Roberts, Bruce Morgan, Bobby Herbeck
14 Movin' Up 30 min | Jan 10, 1987

While Vicki learns to spend a day without duties or instructions, Ted's new prestigious job offer in Massachusetts tests the family's taste to social climb vs. its price of morality.

Director: Bob Claver
Writer: Jerry Ross
Guest stars: Brian Moore, Sarah Marshall
15 Top Secret 30 min | Jan 17, 1987

To make his dad's ""button-pusher"" job seem important to his friends, Jamie hints that Ted is head of a top-secret project -- which even Ted's jealous boss, Brandon, believes.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Kevin Hopps, Gleen Leopold
Guest stars: David Glasser, Brian Austin Green
16 The Personality Kid 30 min | Jan 24, 1987

Nagged by classmates that Vicki has a wooden personality, Jamie overdoes it in secretly programming her a livelier one.

Writer: Ben Starr
17 Matchmaker, Matchmaker 30 min | Dec 06, 1986

To pay for a new bike he bought from the neighborhood bully, Jamie uses Vicki to run a school computerized match-making business.

Director: Bob Claver
Writer: Jerry Ross, Jeffrey Duteil
Guest stars: Chris Herbert, Bobby Jacoby
18 Little Miss Shopping Mall 30 min | Feb 07, 1987

The Lawsons take up the Brindles' snobby challenge and enter Vicki in a mall pageant against Harriet.

Director: Bob Claver
Writer: Bruce Kane
Guest stars: Louis Quinn, Alissa Wright, Vera Daehlin, Livia Genise
19 Victor/Vicki-toria 30 min | Feb 14, 1987

To help his Little League team's rock-bottom status, Jamie disguises Vicki as a boy to use her robotic abilities to bat for the pennant.

Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Bruce Kane, Warren S. Murray
Guest stars: Brad Blaisdell
20 Look into My Eyes 30 min | Feb 21, 1987

After Vicki watches a TV hypnotist turn volunteers into clowns and animals, she starts practicing her new mesmerizing ""skill"" on the Lawsons with hysterical results.

Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Robin Pennington, Don Hart
Guest stars: Brian Austin Green, Jack Fletcher, Milt Jamin
21 Wally the Wimp 30 min | Jun 20, 1987

Joan invites Wally Crandal, a former 90-pound weakling college classmate, over for dinner to meet his former school tormentor: Ted, who rigs Vicki to play even crueler tricks. Only Ted's unaware that Wally's grown into a top pro wrestler.

Director: Peter Baldwin
Writer: Tom Amundsen, Dick Christie
Guest stars: Jesse Ventura
22 The Cat's Meow 30 min | May 09, 1987

To train Vicki to be more affectionate, Ted buys her a toy cat that only makes her mimic Jamie's past jealousy and run away.

Director: Bob Claver
Writer: Donald Ross
Guest stars: Pat Musick
23 Vicki Goodwrench 30 min | May 16, 1987

During Jamie's part-time gas station job, Vicki fine-tunes a car to go 50 miles a gallon, causing oil companies and oil sheiks alike to drop by the Lawsons' door.

Director: Selig Frank
Writer: Ken Steele
Guest stars: Jesse White, Lee Delano, Reuven Bar-Yotem, Leonard Lightfoot
24 Double Wedding 30 min | May 23, 1987

Ted and Joan decide to have the ceremonial wedding they never had -- until the Brindles butt in.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Warren Murphy, Bruce Kane
Guest stars: Jack Grinnage, Lou Carry, Cynthia Frost, Joe Lake

Cast View all

Richard Christie Ted Lawson
Marla Pennington Joan Lawson
Emily Schulman Harriet Brindle
Tiffany Brissette Vicki the Robot
Jerry Supiran Jamie Lawson
Paul C. Scott Reggie Williams
Edie McClurg Bonnie Brindle
William Bogert Brandon Brindle
Brian Austin Green Gary
Bobby Herbeck The Dog
Norman Alden Doyle
Basil Hoffman Mr. Beck
Douglas Emerson Adam
Daryl Bartley Warren
Kelly Britt Mrs. Fernwald
Gino Conforti Maitre D'
George Murdock Mr. Gordon
Jesse Ventura Himself
Pat Musick Cat
Mario Machado Steve Morales
Bobby Jacoby Ernie
Lee Delano Norman Hopps
Jesse White Sid
Enid Kent Mrs. Preston
Milton James Renaldi

Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Layers Single side, Single layer
Regions Region Free

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